Quotes About Theatre

I suppose what's so amazing about working at the National Theatre is that, because it's a subsidized theatre, you're not trying to create a product that's going to have a mass market in order to make the money back.

Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.

Theatre is an actor's medium while a film is the director's.

People will always respond to high-class drama.

I hope that subsidised theatres continue to be rewarded for the wonder of talent they provide to this industry, on stage and off.

Today if any actor says that he has done theatre before, he is considered to be a good one, which is ridiculous.

I have done four years of rigorous theatre before I finally started doing films.

I learnt a thing or two about acting from theatre actor Robin Das who is from Odisha.

I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

In Maharashtra, films are not as big as theatre. I think theatre is deeply rooted in this state's culture.

You only have to look at Manchester's Royal Exchange or Home to understand the huge energy outside London - there's enough talent around the country to have a Donmar and National in every city. It just comes down to money.

One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.

'Death Of A Salesman' is a great acting job.

Serials are for money, movies are for eternity and theatre is for self- satisfaction.

Except theatre, there is no medium which can satisfy good artistes in India.

I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.

I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.

I got to a point where I thought, now I have a choice. I can stay in theatre, or I can challenge myself and give this a go. And I want to challenge myself. I like to scare myself.

I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.

I would like to do theatre because it scares me, and I think you should do things that scare you.

I find the mediums to be incredibly different. In theatre you're telling the same story eight times a week, and in TV that story is constantly changing and you're often telling it out of order based on shooting schedules.

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

I said I would like to do some theatre, so people started searching for some jobs for me, and I didn't think it would be the lead role in 'Equus.'

I always loved drama at school. We had a great drama teacher at my secondary school, and she made drama feel cool. She inspired me, and then I did the National Youth Theatre in London.